This is truly amazing. Part of me wants to believe that the man in the video was a paid actor, but I have to believe he was the real deal. It looked like nothing ever happened.

If you think about it, this should work (on paper). Burned skin is dead and flakes away, leaving huge swaths of subcutaneous tissue exposed. Spray it with the patient’s own stem cells, and you’ve simply done what the body can’t because of interruptions to the skin’s “matrix.” They’ve taken the body’s own tissue, atomized it, sprayed it on a damaged area, and since it’s the patient’s own cell, the body just accepts it and re-establishes the cellular matrix in the area.

Think of it as if you put a large hole in a wall in your house. You cut away the jagged edges of drywall, put a new piece in it’s place, secure it to a stud or to the surrounding drywall, put some joint tape around the seam, cover it with joint compound, let it dry, texture, repaint, and you’re done. In this case, instead of putting new skin in place, they’re simply spraying the skin on the area where it will re-bond with the rest of the healthy skin in the area. I would imagine the healing time is no different than if you scraped your knee but without the bleeding or oozing that you’d normally get.

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posted on 04/05/2014 6:17:21 AM PDT
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

I doubt it, since the device has not been fully tested and FDA approved. However, someone might be testing it. I used to work at a hospital with a top-notch burn unit. They were often testing new treatments in clinical trials.

This is not to say that our soldiers are guinea pigs! Nothing will ever be tested in humans unless it is already shown effective in animal testing, and whatever new therapy is being tested, the patient still must receive the standard of care in addition to the test therapy.

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posted on 04/05/2014 6:32:59 AM PDT
by exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)

This appears to be a very useful tool for the treatment of second degree burns, but it isn’t going to help victims of full depth, third degree burns.

Why not? Because it does not deal with the fact that you can’t grow live skin on dead meat.

For third degree, full depth burns, the dead tissue must be quickly removed surgically before it becomes necrotic, then the wound must be sealed to prevent fluid loss and infection. Only later can the skin be restored, usually with a full thickness graft. Skin contraction and scarring has been the result for years.

Fortunately, there are tissue scaffolds under development that can be implanted in the wound space that support tissue growth with minimum contraction and also some resorbable artificial skin treatments that have the potential of restoring a patient’s own skin in even the most serious survivable third degree burn cases.

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posted on 04/05/2014 6:47:18 AM PDT
by John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)

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